Personal schedule for Mike Milinkovich

Join us for a day-long program exploring OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform. Originally founded at NASA and Rackspace, OpenStack has grown to be a global software community of developers collaborating on a standard and massively scalable open source cloud operating system.
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An open source community depends on its capacity to attract people and the efficiency with which it can harness their energy to create great software. While a compelling mission or killer product can be helpful, effective communities must be responsive and efficient in managing the diverse needs and demands of its members.
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Applied Minds CEO, Danny Hillis will offer an introduction to The Learning Map, a Shared Learning Collaborative initiative organizing online learning material to get the right content to the right student at the right time.
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The Web has transformed not only the way we approach modern day science, but a number of other facets of the research cycle: tools for analysis, mediums which now serve as “information inputs”, how we exchange ideas and even discover knowledge. Yet despite the pieces being there, changing practice is like trying to shake a castle.
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In this keynote, Brian Aker, HP Fellow, will share challenges and best practices from his work with OpenStack software, including how a rich set of APIs must be developed in order to drive broad platform adoption as well as the need for formal APIs.
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Open source software was one of the earliest successful examples of a sharing economy that has had huge economic impact. But as alternative energy advocate Steve Baer once noted, ecosystem services are often ignored in economic analysis: when you put your clothes in the dryer the energy you use is measured and counted, but when you hang them on the line, they disappear from the measured economy.
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Why do you decide to use Open Source Software? How do you choose one Open Source project over another? Join us for a discussion of the critical factors to consider to "mitigate risk" when choosing to use a project, including techniques for living with that choice. We'll talk about several different projects that we have integrated to various ends: success, forking, adoption, and abandonment.
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Creating a new programming language, especially one for the browser is crazy! Is this a nefarious plot to break the open web and take over the world? Come see what we're doing and I'll show you how Dart can make it easier and more fun to build apps that play nice with JS and the web.
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We've assembled the first comprehensive history of open source in the US government -- all the major events, publications, policy, and code releases we could collect. And it's mashable. From that data, we learn how the government adopts open source, how policies affects adoption, and how governments have most effectively encouraged their own open source use.
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Learn how to think like a Git using nothing more than children's toys! If you’re using git, but are uncomfortable with it and don’t really get it, this is for you.
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD – Small Parts. Not For Children Under 4 Years.
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What is the single most valuable part of an open source project? Its brand. When everyone can fork your code on their own, a project's brand is the most important thing to understand and maintain for the benefit of the project's core technical community. Learn how communities can intelligently manage their reputation, and companies can respectfully use the brand.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs spawned in July 2011 the creation of OSEHRA, a non-profit organization whose mission is to apply best practices of open source software development to the improvement and maintenance of Open Source EHR information systems that are freely available for all. Please join us in this session to hear about the current activities and future plans of OSEHRA.
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A discussion about MQTT, a popular lightweight messaging protocol open sourced through the Eclipse Foundation, and used in a variety of mobile and embedded device applications (from automated mousetraps, to tweeting ferries, and Facebook Messenger).
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Formed by a group that included Tim O'Reilly, OSI has been the cornerstone of the movement OSCON aims to gather in plenary. Hear how OSI is transforming itself into the new voice of the global open source community
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Will Microsoft ever get serious about Open Source? How does Microsoft design what is "Open Source" vs. "Source Opened"? Join Scott Hanselman from the Azure/ASP.NET/IIS team as he talks about what's going on in Open Source in the Angle Brackets and Curly Brackets space.
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Orion is a browser-based open tool integration platform: tools are written in JavaScript and run in the browser. Unlike other attempts at creating browser-based development tools, this is not an IDE running in a single tab. Links work and can be shared. You can open a file in a new tab. Great care has been taken to provide a web experience for development.
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